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adder's tongue

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Noun1.adder's tongue - ferns with fertile spikes shaped like a snake's tongueadder's tongue - ferns with fertile spikes shaped like a snake's tongue
fern - any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores
genus Ophioglossum, Ophioglossum - the type genus of the fern family Ophioglossaceae
Ophioglossum pendulum, ribbon fern - epiphytic fern with straplike usually twisted fronds of tropical Asia and Polynesia and America


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These include grasslands which have not been subject to artificial fertilisers and are home to meadow flowers and plants such as adder's tongue fern, which grows a single oval "leaf" every year, encasing a tongue-like spike.
Warwickshire Wildlife Trust has pointed out that huge swathes of meadow would also be swallowed and we may lose rare flowers like narrow-leaved water dropwort, the gorgeous green-winged orchid and adder's tongue.
The roll call included meadow fox-tail, sweet vernal grass, downy oat grass, wood horse-tail, red fescue, crested dog's-tail, wood anemone, bugle, floating sweet grass, sharp flowered rush, ragged robin, wood cranesbill, marsh marigold, globe flower, yellow rattle, adder's tongue fern, and moonwort.
 
 
 
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